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The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century

Af: Tricia Cusack Engelsk Hardback

The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century

Af: Tricia Cusack Engelsk Hardback
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The reading figure has been a recurrent theme in Western art but especially from the nineteenth century. This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which people are shown reading or holding a book. It explores different values ascribed to reading and contemporary constructions of the reader. The selected pictures are by artists born, trained, or practising in Ireland. ''Irish art'' is, therefore, used broadly to include work framed in some way by experience of Ireland and its history, culture, and politics. This was a time of large social and cultural shifts for Ireland, and a period when books and other reading, including Irish novels, were often published in London. Many of the artists and sitters discussed were Anglo-Irish Protestants. Both Imperial and nationalist ideologues tended to devalue reading, especially fiction, as an unmanly occupation. Nonetheless, some men are depicted reading and failing to embody a manly attitude. The spread of the novel, and the introduction of ‘silent reading’ allowed women of the middle and upper classes, often Anglo-Irish, to engage with a range of imaginative reading materials, secure from patriarchal surveillance. Visual images of women as serious readers drew on and contributed to the emergence of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.

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The reading figure has been a recurrent theme in Western art but especially from the nineteenth century. This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which people are shown reading or holding a book. It explores different values ascribed to reading and contemporary constructions of the reader. The selected pictures are by artists born, trained, or practising in Ireland. ''Irish art'' is, therefore, used broadly to include work framed in some way by experience of Ireland and its history, culture, and politics. This was a time of large social and cultural shifts for Ireland, and a period when books and other reading, including Irish novels, were often published in London. Many of the artists and sitters discussed were Anglo-Irish Protestants. Both Imperial and nationalist ideologues tended to devalue reading, especially fiction, as an unmanly occupation. Nonetheless, some men are depicted reading and failing to embody a manly attitude. The spread of the novel, and the introduction of ‘silent reading’ allowed women of the middle and upper classes, often Anglo-Irish, to engage with a range of imaginative reading materials, secure from patriarchal surveillance. Visual images of women as serious readers drew on and contributed to the emergence of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 188
ISBN-13: 9781785276446
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1785276441
Kategori: Portrætter
Udg. Dato: 1 feb 2022
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 159mm
Forlag: Anthem Press
Oplagsdato: 1 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Tricia Cusack
Forfatter(e) Tricia Cusack

Kategori Portrætter

ISBN-13 9781785276446

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 188

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 237mm

Højde 159mm

Udg. Dato 1 feb 2022

Oplagsdato 1 feb 2022

Forlag Anthem Press